Quotes About Generosity

It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.

As you have more resources in life, it's your obligation to deploy those for the benefit of others.

If you have the good fortune of having money, it's almost an obligation to think creatively of ways of helping other people. But it shouldn't be in a haphazard way. You need a structure, a formula, so you don't give to everything.

The players before me got this TV revenue so high that I can make money to support my family forever, and I feel like it's an obligation for us to leave the game better than when we first got it, for the future.

A lot of people like to say that they have trouble getting gifts. I have trouble giving them. It's not out of a lack of generosity, mind you. My fallback is to go big, no matter what the occasion.

It's a strange principle but it's true, nevertheless, that those who give the most have the most of whatever they give.

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure . . . will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." LUKE 6:38

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine ... Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Fasting, in its most fundamental aspiration, is about developing a sacrificial, self-offering life that addresses and nurtures the needs of others.

9. The Moon Cannot Be Stolen Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of the mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. You may have come a long way to visit me, he told the prowler, and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift. Ryokan sat naked, watching the moon. Poor fellow, he mused, I wish I could give him this beautiful moon.

Love and large-hearted giving, when added together, can leave deep marks.It is never easy to cover these marks, dear friends—never easy.

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again

Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

Today I shall give myself in sacrifice and work; for tomorrow I will have nothing to give and there will be none to receive.

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse." Hafid

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

Those who give too much are always expected to give more, and blamed when they reach the point of refusal.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.